Delivering EMV Awareness to a leading Saudi Bank

Project Brief

Our Client - one of the leading and valuable banks in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. The Bank currently boasts 62 branches, 253 ATMs, three Global Investment Centers, and 28 Speed Cash Centers within the Kingdom.

As the bank has embarked on the migration to the EMV platform, The bank?¢â¬â¢s objective was to increase their overall smart card and EMV migration awareness and ensure that the bank is correctly planning for the required readiness for such a critical initiative.

CIT Role

Provided a set of tailored EMV workshops and strategy formulation sessions covering:

• Strategic review of the EMV implementation business and technical requirements
• Identifying the potential impacts on the bank's infrastructure and processes.

The EMV awareness workshops were supplemented by the provision of an EMV roadmap document and the initiation of the EMV strategic planning exercise. In addition, specific related security training was provided.
Security Training, covering:

• Detailed technical sessions in the areas of security and key management
• Implications of EMV in the overall security infrastructure.

Client Benefits

The combination of CIT experience in EMV consultancy and migration, multi-applications smart cards, ePayment, and ePayment EMV compliant products, provided SAMBA with a unique approach to address the current needs towards achieving End-to-End EMV compliant solution.

The EMV Business and Technical workshops, delivered by CIT experts enabled the bank to build the knowledge base required to best decide on, plan, and prepare for the migration to the new technology.